FARMING AT NINETYFOUR.

Evening Star, Issue 13090, 24 October 1908, Page 4

FARMING AT NINETYFOUR.

Mt Robert Same, who has a email holding of half .an acre at Castle Hcdingham, Essex, has just cat hie crop of wheat. He is ninety-four years of age, and ho did the whole of the work hiinself. He held to the old-fashioned way of cutting it with a sickle, and ho intends to thresh it with a flail. If you ask Mr Sams the secret of his wonderful vitality at ninety-four he will tell you that it is because has has been a hardy life. He has never been used to luxury. When his family were young, for instance, his food often consisted of potatoes and swede turnips. In hie youth tea was 7s a lb, so that he was, at any rate, free from the danger of those nerve troubles which doctors now assure us tea-drinking often brings in its train. The wage of the farm laborer in the far-off days of hie youth was 6s a week, with a. rise of Is on marriage. As the result of this inducement the village youths wore, says ilr Sams, keen on matrimony.